The Ukrainian Weekly 1978

I CBObOAAXSVOBODA І І Ж Щ УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ЩОАСННИК ЧЩд^Р UKRAINIAN DAILV Щ Щ Ukrainian Weekly ENGLISH" LANGUAGE WEEKLY EDITION Ш VOL. LXXXV No. 73 25 CENTS No. 73 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 2,1978 Goldberg: CSCE Was Success Matusevych, Marynovych Sentenced by Boris Potapenko '' Visti'' International News Service WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Uni spoke of human rights at the beginning ted States performance at the recently of the conference, the ambassador felt concluded Conference on Security and that it was a great achievement that 24 Cooperation in Europe was examined countries made human rights a signifi Tuesday, March 21, by Ambassador cant point of their concluding state Arthur Goldberg, who testified before ments. the U.S. Commission and Security and Ambassador Goldberg disagreed Cooperation in Europe. with the portrayal of the Belgrade The former Supreme Court Justice meeting as an event high in rhetoric but who headed the U.S. delegation, de low in substance, and also the view that fended U.S. strategy in Belgrade, and the inability to get human rights men was overwhelmingly positive and opti tioned in the final document and the mistic in both his oral and written failure to reach consensus on over 100 statements to the commission concern new proposals was proof that the confer ing the review conference and the fu ence was unsuccessful. ture of the Helsinki process. The ambassador maintained that Mykola Matusevych Myroslav Marynovych Ambassador Goldberg told the com the process begun with the signing of NEW YORK, N.Y.—Mykola Matb- the trial in Vasylkiv, a town south of mission that "the Belgrade conference the Final Act in 1975 is a gradual one, sevych and Myroslav Marynovych, Kiev. was largely successful" and indicated that the West will not change habits members of the Kiev Public Group The dissident sources said that Ma that this was due to the inclusion in the and traditions in the East overnight, і Promote the Implementation of the Hel tusevych and Marynovych first came agenda of the conference a require and that "all the United States can do sinki Accords, were each sentenced before the court Wednesday, March ment for a thorough review of imple is build on the Final Act in the hope seven years imprisonment and fi 22. mentation. that openness and less repression will years internal exile after being fourfd The leader of the Ukrainian group, "We did have such a review," he characterize the CSCE process." In guilty of "anti-Soviet activity Mykola Rudenko, and one of its mem said. "All areas of the Final Act were this, he said, "we succeeded." according to wire service reports ^f bers, Oleksa Tykhy, were sentenced discussed, developed, and there was a Mr. Goldberg defended the final Thursday, March 30. last July to seven and 10 years, respec public airing of views of what had document of the conference. He tively, in labor camps for anti-Soviet taken place in the last two and one-half acknowledged that the document was The wire services quoted Moscojw agitation. years." short, but maintained that it had dissidents as saying that no family Marynovych, a technical engineer, He cautioned that this should not be important substantive features and in members or friends of the two Ukrairii dicated that the following excerpts are and Matusevych, a former history stu taken to mean that the dialogue be an dissidents were allowed to attend dent, were arrested 11 months ago tween East and West was of the kind exemplary in this regard: that the United States had desired. "The representatives of the partici- While only a half . dozen countries (Continuedonpage3) Gen. Grigorenko Protests Trial of Matusevych, Marynovych Mary Dushnyck, UNA V.P.F JERSEY CITY, N.J.—Soon after Myroslav committed any crimes. They learning of the beginning of the trial jrf are decent persons, and devoted Ukrai Heads N.Y. Fraternal Congress Mykola Matusevych and Myroslav nian patriots. Their only offense is that Marynovych, former Soviet Maj. Geh. they sacrificed their freedom, welfare, NEW YORK, N.Y.—The 77th an Pyotr Grigorenko called the Svoboia and even lives to fight for human and nual meeting of the New York Frater editorial offices to declare his solida national rights of their people. nal Congress (NYFC), held Wednes rity with the two Ukrainian Helsinki The world, and in particular Ukrai day, March 22, at the Statler Hilton watchers. nians in the West, will prove to be in Hotel here, elected Mrs. Mary Dush Gen. Grigorenko said on FridaV, different people if they sit quietly and nyck, UNA Vice-Presi4ent, as its new March 24, that he is convinced of thdir do not demonstrate against this law president. innocence and fears that the chargfes lessness Another UNA delegate attending the against them have been falsified. | meeting was Dr. John O. Flis, UNA Below is the full statement made by Vice-President. Also present at the Gen. Grigorenko: Vins Brought luncheon session was Dr. Walter Dush Finally, the trial of the youngebt nyck, editor of The Ukrainian Quar members of the Ukrainian Public To Trial terly. Group to Promote the Implementation NEW YORK, N.Y.—Petro Vins, a The UNA is one of 46 affiliated so of the Helsinki Accords, my friends in member of the Kiev Public Group to cieties comprising the NYFC, which the struggle in defense of rights, Myki- Promote the Implementation of the also includes the Ukrainian Working- la Matusevych and Myroslav Maryncb- Helsinki Accords, was reportedly men's Association and the vych, has begun. They have been tor brought to trial in Kiev Tuesday, Providence Association of Ukrainian tured for almost a year during the in March 28, said the press service of the Catholics. Mrs. Dushnyck is the first vestigation, in the course of which thdy Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council Ukrainian American woman to head were completely isolated from trie (abroad). the NYFC. Dr. Jaroslaw Padoch, for world. I do not know what they will be Vins, the son of the incarcerated Uk mer UNA Secretary, had also served as Mary Dushnyck charged with, but I firmly know that it rainian Baptist leader, Georgi Vins, Pr e erans was one of m will be another falsification, as in trie was arrested on February 15, 1978. He Tht meeting conducted by the in- ' 5^ ost stimulating case of Rudenko and Tykhy, and all ш recent еаг8 A ressin was charged with parisitism. He was cumbent president Herbert A Koll- У ' ^ S the con- political prisoners in Ukraine and the also arrested in December 1977, but was mann of the Aid Association for Luth- (Continued on page 7) Soviet Union. Neither Mykola, ndr released after several days detention. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 1978 No. 73 Receives 50 Ruble Fine Russian Dissidents Protest For "Belief in God' Arrest of Lukianenko NEW YORK, N.Y.—Six members it is obvious that the arrest of Luki of the Moscow Group to Promote the anenko was based on his activity in the Implementation of the Helsinki Accords Ukrainian Helsinki group," said the protested the arrest of Lev Lukianen Russian dissidents. ko, a member of the Kiev group, by They added that they are "deeply calling it a "tragic fate," reported the disturbed" by the arrest, and join the press service of the Ukrainian Supreme Ukrainian group in saying that the Liberation Council (abroad). CSCE will not be successful if mem The statement, dated February 2, bers of the public groups remain in pri 1978, was signed by Elena Bonner, son. The six dissidents stressed that Sofia Kalistratova, Viktor Nekipelov, since Lukianenko was arrested on a Naum Meiman, Tatiana Osipova and political charge, after he is released Vladimir Slepak. from incarceration, he will continue to The Russian dissidents said tha: re be deprived of all rights of citizens of pression against the Helsinki groups the USSR. in the Soviet Union is continuing un The Russian human rights advocates abated. warned that persons who continue to "These repressions, without a possess views contrary to government Клсснр (контролер) doubt, show the government's planned policies are in danger of being tried as strangling and destruction of the Hel recidivists. This, they said, results in a Despite all assurances by the Soviet government that freedom of religion exists in sinki groups formed in the USSR. Each severe sentence. the Soviet Union, proof that it in fact is not guaranteed is revealed in the above member of these groups lives under "In calling for actions in defense of document. The photo above is a reduced copy of a receipt issued to one Pa- constant threat of persecution," they Lukianenko, we simultaneously call raskeva Ilyivna Mishinoy after she paid a 50-ruble fine for "belief in God." The said. for the defense of members of the pub receipt, dated September 18, 1974, was issued in the town of Obnynsk, some 80 The Moscow Helsinki watchers said lic groups to promote the implementa kilometers southwest of Moscow, in the Kaluga oblast. The copy was received in tion of the Helsinki Accords who were the United States by the Rev. Serhiy Kindzeriawy-Pastukhiw, who sent it to that the arrest of Lukianenko "arouses alarm." They said that the government arrested earlier,'' they said. Svoboda. It originally appeared in the Swedish^magazine "Orthodox Tiding" While citing those Helsinki watchers (Orthodox Herald). never informed him of the charges. "One thing is known: Lukianenko, who are already incarcerated, the Rus not only never committed any crime, sian dissidents said that Mykola Ru he never incited others to commit denko and Oleksa Tykhy received "in- Kiev Group Releases crimes or other illegal acts.

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